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Standard pond

Standard Pond play: fast Bot Lab and early boosting into Advanced Metal Extractor, sending Tick/Pawn/Blitz to front while tidal-boosting allies throughout.

#eco #team support · 486 distinct matches · 107 players · 59% of Armada Pond games · team won 50% of 553 · Recently observed

HOW TO PLAY IT

Key timing: Bot Lab by 5:42

  1. Open tidal, then wind to start boosting front's economy.
  2. Take mex and keep boosting wind or tidal depending on front's needs.
  3. Get a Bot Lab up, start sending Tick and Pawn to front.
  4. Add Advanced Metal Extractor to scale up team's economy.
  5. Switch to tick spam if enemy reaches T2 front before you do.

Phase by phase

TYPICAL OF ITS 486 GAMES
  1. 1
  2. 2
PLAY THE OPENING

Follow the example game's first 6:00 step by step: what to build now, what comes next, and where it goes. At 1× it keeps pace with your own game.

  1. 1

    Up to the Bot Lab

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor4Mex
    • Wind Turbine10Wind
    • Tidal Generator8Tidalfor allies
    • Tidal Generator1Tidal
    • Energy Storage1Energy storage
    Order
    1. Bot LabBot Lab after 4 mex, 10 wind, 1 energy storagedone ~5:36, middle half 3:31–7:00

    Some games also: converter (45%)

    By 5:05 in all: 4 mex · 10 wind · 1 tidal · 1 energy storage

    The example game in this phase · 48 steps
    1. Tidal ×8for Suicide front
    2. Tidal
    3. Wind ×2
    4. Mex ×3
    5. Vehicle PlantVehicle Plantdone 2:52
    6. BeaverBeaver
    7. Mex
    8. Wind ×4
    9. Energy storage
    10. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    11. Wind
    12. Construction VehicleCon vehicle
    13. Naval Construction Turret
    14. Converter
    15. Con turret
    16. Converter
    17. Tidal
    18. Converter
    19. Tidal
    20. Converter
    21. Tidal
    22. SentrySentry
    23. Converter ×2
    24. Tidal
    25. Converter ×2
    26. Tidal
    27. Converter ×2
    28. Tidal
    29. Converter
    30. Tidal
    31. SentrySentry
    32. Tidal ×2
    33. SentrySentry
    34. Tidal ×2
    35. Dragon's TeethDragon's Teeth ×4
    36. Tidal
    37. SentrySentry
    38. Tidal
    39. SentrySentry
    40. Tidal ×4
    41. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 9:09 · typical 9:54
    42. Con turret
    43. Tidal ×3
    44. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    45. Tidal ×2
    46. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    47. Tidal ×3
    48. Bot LabBot Labdone 10:31 · typical 5:36
  2. 2

    Bot Lab to 10:00

    Economy
    • Wind Turbine16Wind
    Builders
    • Construction Turret1 Con turret
    • Construction Bot2 Con bot
    Army
    • Tick1 Tick

    Some games also: Lazarus (48%) · converter (45%)

    By 10:00 in all: 4 mex · 31 wind · 1 tidal · 5 converter · 1 energy storage · 2 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 61 steps
    1. Tidal
    2. PawnPawn
    3. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    4. PawnPawn
    5. Tidal
    6. PawnPawn ×3
    7. Tidal
    8. PawnPawn ×2
    9. Tidal
    10. PawnPawn ×2
    11. Tidal
    12. PawnPawn ×2
    13. Con turret
    14. Tidal
    15. PawnPawn
    16. Tidal
    17. Con turret
    18. PawnPawn
    19. Aircraft PlantAircraft Plantdone 11:47
    20. Tidal
    21. StormbringerBomber
    22. Tidal
    23. StormbringerBomber ×2
    24. Tidal
    25. StormbringerBomber
    26. Tidal
    27. StormbringerBomber ×2
    28. Tidal
    29. StormbringerBomber ×2
    30. Tidal
    31. StormbringerBomber ×2
    32. Tidal
    33. StormbringerBomber
    34. Tidal
    35. StormbringerBomber ×2
    36. Tidal
    37. StormbringerBomber ×2
    38. Tidal
    39. StormbringerBomber ×2
    40. Tidal
    41. StormbringerBomber ×2
    42. Tidal
    43. StormbringerBomber ×2
    44. Tidal
    45. StormbringerBomber
    46. Tidal
    47. StormbringerBomber ×2
    48. Tidal
    49. StormbringerBomber ×2
    50. Tidal
    51. StormbringerBomber ×2
    52. Tidal
    53. StormbringerBomber ×2
    54. Tidal ×2
    55. StormbringerBomber ×2
    56. Tidal
    57. StormbringerBomber
    58. CenturionCenturion
    59. StormbringerBomber
    60. Tidal
    61. CenturionCenturion

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is DRM's (44 OS, 28/09/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

  • Tidal Generator8 Tidal to Suicide front or Frontfirst at 0:10 · in 90% of games

You get

  • Hercules1 Light transport from Air or Techfirst at 4:28 · in 31% of games
  • Hephaestus1 Heavy transport from Air or Techfirst at 4:44 · in 39% of games
  • Fatboy1 Fatboy from Techfirst at 5:03 · in 40% of games
  • Sharpshooter2 Sniper bot from Techfirst at 5:16 · in 42% of games
  • Advanced Construction Bot1 T2 con bot from Techfirst at 8:18 · in 92% of games

How it plays out

Typical game of this build, running totals by minute

Metal produced

010k20k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

Enemy metal destroyed

02k4k6k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

Own metal lost

02k4k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

553 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0011500
2:0027300
3:0082000
4:00151000
5:00223100
6:00298400
7:0038434590
8:0047571240138
9:0057191965375
10:0069002780713
11:00840432701147
12:001035735791578
13:001262541961940
14:001497947632417
15:001768153183015
WHAT THE NUMBERS SAY

This is the role's standard support job, winning slightly under half its games while contributing modest kills for modest losses.

  • + Keeps own losses fairly low relative to kills (2827 destroyed vs 756 lost by 10:00).
  • + Reaches T2 constructor reliably (89% of games) by 8:10.
  • − Metal production trails other roles at 6855 by 10:00.
  • − No kills registered by 5:00, slow to impact the fight.
THE EXAMPLE YOU ARE READING

DRM

44.0 OS · 28/09/2026

Open source match ↗

8 received units · includes a constructor
492 metal received · 15488 energy received

Allied construction assistance is unknown. Timings are observations, not a promise of solo reproducibility.

Typical milestones

Bot Lab5:36Middle 50%: 3:31–7:00 · n=497
Advanced Metal Extractor9:54Middle 50%: 8:59–10:38 · n=501

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